Legal Aspects of the Privatisation and Commercialisation of Space Activities - Fourth Report -PART I

MAUREEN WILLIAMS

Report of the Seventy-Fourth Conference

International Law Association

Lugar: Londres 2010; Año: 2011; p. 260 - 290

The prevailing opinion of the Committee, including officers and  members, and other experts with whom we liaised during these years, concurs that remote sensing, space debris and dispute settlement, in Part I of the Report, and national space legislation, in Part II, continue to be high priorities, in most circles, in the current international and regional contexts. Having in mind our work over the next two years, and based on recent perceptions from the international arena, we are introducing some thoughts on related subjects, namely NEOs (Near Earth Objects) and an introductory piece on the 1979 Moon Agreement -on which, as will be later mentioned, the ILA had already adopted a Resolution at the 2002 New Delhi Conference- to establish its consistency with the advances of science and technology which   are rapidly changing the face of the world. What follows is, therefore, the pre-stage of our Final Report on Remote Sensing and NSL expected for 2012, including the topics under permanent study of this Committee -i.e. space debris and dispute settlement related to space activities- and a brief introduction on related topics as possible areas for future work and on which we are beginning to give our views.